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My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
4.0
This is a wry, cheeky little book. It is an experimental concept and while the tent posts of the world are grounded in reality, everything between floats in mid-air. I loved the narrow world of our unnamed narrator and her peripheral characters. The claustrophobia made it immersive. I liked the fact that there was never an attempt to shy away from the narrator's cruelty and dismissiveness. There isn't much of an attempt to ingratiate us to her and I thought that was more honest and admirable from a writing standpoint. I enjoyed this book and debated long and hard on my rating. My gripes contradict themselves with my commendations. It's a hard book to parse out. This rating feels truest.